"Charter of Diversity"

HZDR is a member of the "Charter of Diversity", an initiative encouraging diversity in business companies and public institutions. It is supported by the German federal government, the chancellor of Germany being its patron.

The TELBE facility will start with 2 weeks of “friendly user” operation per beamtime period in the 2nd semester of 2016. It complements the available IR and THz spectrum at the ELBE Center of the HZDR with the lower end of the THz spectrum between 0.1 and 3 THz. In difference to the Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility FELBE it provides not only high average power but also high THz fields at user determined repetition rates and with a unique timing to external lasers in the few 10 femtosecond regime.

Future users from areas as diverse as accelerator R&D, materials science and life sciences were invited to present their experimental ideas and experimental requirements. Each of the respective session was ended with a round-table discussion on the short-, medium- and long-term ideas and requirements of the respective user communities.